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industrialist in 1841 and awarded by the

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, which at that time was under

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rule. In 1856 there were two types of award, an annual prize of 700 Austrian lire for a painting in oils, and a biennial award of 1000 lire for

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work.Gazzetta ufficiale del regno d'Italia, Volume 6
1887, page 6387. It was awarded until the outbreak of the

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. Among the recipients of the award were Salvatore Mazza (1856),

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(1868), Vespasiano Bignami (1869),

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(1870),

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(1878), , (1884) Amerino Cagnoni (1886),

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(1890), Egidio Riva (1902), Donato Frisia (1920) and

Trento Longaretti Trento Longaretti (27 September 1916 – 7 June 2017) was an Italian painter. He studied at the Brera Academy in the 1930s, where he was taught by renowned artists, including painters Aldo Carpi and Pompeo Borra, and sculptors Francesco Messina ...

(1939).

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